11/29/2023 0 Comments Bijou theatre nyc‘Paula Edwardes Says She Was Told to Go to Broadway and 23rd Street Corner and Pray. ( New York Daily Tribune, New York, New York, Wednesday, 2 December 1903, p. As a whole, however, Winsome Winnie is not likely to set the town on fire.’ She looks very charming, and plays with considerable feeling for the opera bouffe spirit that was evidently meant to animate the piece. Miss Paula Edwardes, also, announced as a star, makes good the assertion, and is easily the most successful – the one successful, perhaps – mirth creator in the cast. And two, at least, of the few numbers by Jakobowki that are retained, one in each act, have the rhythmic swing and melodious and merry orchestration which helped to make Erminie popular. Kerker, to be sure, has contributed some pleasing numbers, and the management a vast array of pleasing costumes on still more pleasing girls. Remarks about Chicago and the subway fall on the ears of Offenbachish brigands, show girls trip under trees such as Turner painted in his foregrounds, and the skeleton of a plot, poor Paulton’s dim, far off idea, appears and disappears fitfully, like the smile of the Chessie cat. ![]() ‘ Winsome Winnie in its present form falls between two stools it is neither a Broadway ”show” nor an opera bouffe, or old-fashioned musical comedy. Was the original version so bad, then, that it has to be doctored out of all semblance of itself? By Erminie, it is hard to believe! Yet, if doctored, it must be, why not have done the job thoroughly? Why not have made a new comedy of it altogether, and announced it as a musical play by Ranken and Kerker, with a few interpolated songs by Jakobowski? Why weave, in short, upon the fabric of an old fashioned opera bouffe, such as Winsome Winnie must have once been, the violent, incoherent designs of an American machine made musical comedy, things of ”gags” and ”local allusions” and Dutch dialect and tripping ”show girls,” and then try to palm off the patchwork as art upon the public? Ranken has made an ”American version” of the book. Winsome Winnie is credited to the author of Erminie, Jakobowski and Paulton, but there remains only six musical numbers for which they are responsible the rest have been supplied by Gustav Kerker with Frederick Ranken’s lyrics. ‘The production on a New-York stage of such a musical comedy as Winsome Winnie shown last night at the Casino with Miss Paul Edwardes in the title part, illustrates how far musical comedy standards have been lowered in this country, or, at any rate, how well nigh impossible it is to find American musical comedy makers who can level up to these standards. ( The Sun, New York, New York, Tuesday, 1 December 1903, p. The other new attraction will be at the Bijou, where Alice Fischer opens in What’s the Matter With Susan?‘ This is Miss Fischer’s second starring season and Miss Edwardes’s first.’ Paula Edwardes will be presented as a star to-night at the Casino in Winsome Winnie. First-nighters will have to hustle to keep up with the procession. ‘Two new plays will be produced to-night and two to-morrow night. (photo: unknown, probably New York, 1903 halftone postcard published by Carter & Out, New York, 1903) Paula Edwardes (1870?-after 1926), American musical comedy actress as she appeared in the title role of Winsome Winnie, a musical comedy produced at the Casino Theatre, New York, on 1 December 1903.
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